A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures (1848)
Quekett, John, 1815-1861 · London, H. Bailliere · leaf 283
jects upon,are those known in commerce as thin plate and flatted crown,both may be purchased either in sheets or cut up into slidesready for use; if the former be preferred, it should be freefrom holes and flaws, whilst, in the latter, veins and airbubbles must be avoided; should the operator wish… … Fig. 154. of a piece of mahogany or deal a b, about a foot or eighteeninches long by eight or nine broad, and three quarters or oneinch thick; upon this, and close to one of the sides, is screweda strip of similar wood c, about an inch broad and one-fourthof an inch thick, but not so long as the…
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